We recently compiled a list of the 14 AI News Investors Are Paying Attention To. In this article, we are going to take a look at where ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) stands against the other AI stocks investors are paying attention to.
The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI, now the most valuable private firm in the world, back in November 2022 had widespread implications for the technology industry. In the two years since the release, technology valuations, which had hit a snag due to broader inflation and slowing growth concerns, have jumped back up. Technology giants have surpassed multi-trillion dollar valuations and OpenAI itself has crossed $150 billion in value. In this environment, technology firms have been pushing for greater capital expenditures on AI infrastructure, telling investors that adding more data and computing power will consistently lead to improved AI models.
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However, news agency Reuters reports that new techniques being used by AI firms to train their AI models could reshape the AI arms race, and have implications for the types of resources that AI companies have an insatiable demand for, from energy to types of chips. For example, Ilya Sutskever, a Canadian-Israeli computer scientist who was one of the founders of OpenAI, has said that results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued. The computer scientist claims that the 2010s were the age of scaling, and now we’re back in the age of wonder and discovery once again. Everyone is looking for the next thing, and scaling the right thing matters more now than ever.
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ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML)
Market Capitalization: $268 Billion
ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) makes and sells advanced semiconductor equipment systems. An IT outage at the company late last week impacted the ability to communicate with suppliers and caused issues with cleanrooms, offices, and support departments. A spokesperson for the firm told news agency Reuters that the outage was reported on Friday and was brought under control the same day. However, the cause of the outage was still under investigation, per the company. This is the second time in a month that the firm has had technical problems. It released its third-quarter earnings half a day earlier than expected because of a technical issue in October.
Overall ASML ranks 7th on our list of the stocks investors are paying attention to. While we acknowledge the potential of ASML as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than ASML but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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